France COVID-19: Staff shortages stoke fears at hospital near Paris "There are currently 20% of intensive care beds in the Ile-de-France region that are closed due to lack of personnel," revealed Paris hospital's deputy director, Yohann Mourier. 30/12/2021
View Europe’s ICUs are facing another COVID surge. They need support | View At least 80 per cent of critically ill COVID-19 patients are unvaccinated, putting them and others at risk. Europe's intensive care staff need help to tackle this crisis, write the president and president-elect of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine 01/12/2021
Culture news Hospices de Beaune 2021 auction sees record €800,000 barrel puchase The proceeds will go to the French NGO 'Solidarité Femmes' and the Curie Institute. 22/11/2021
Romania Photographer urges Romanians to get COVID vaccine After spending more than 150 hours shooting inside intensive care units, one photographer is desperately trying to convince people to get the vaccine. 19/11/2021
Green Opinion How and why hospital surgery is contributing to the climate emergency Most surgeons are not even aware of the scale of surgical practice’s carbon footprint, despite it being hefty. 16/10/2021
Biztech news Ireland’s health service using 30,000 outdated PCs after cyberattack Six months after the HSE’s entire IT system was compromised, Irish lawmakers are demanding to know why it is still using outdated computers. 22/09/2021
Green Opinion This is the one thing medical schools are not teaching doctors GP Chris Newman asks the question, what is the point of my job if we don't prevent climate change? 28/08/2021
Health Which European country has the world's best healthcare system? A new report comparing 11 national healthcare systems found the wealthiest country had the sickest citizens. 13/08/2021
Russia Nine COVID patients died after oxygen pipe burst, says health ministry It happened at the Clinical Emergency Hospital of Vladikavkaz, the capital city of the southwestern North Ossetia region, local news agencies reported. 09/08/2021
Lebanon Lebanon's hospitals fear new COVID wave as economy begins to collapse On Friday the UN warned that clean water may soon no longer be available for more than four million people. The government is so cash-strapped it's struggling to run both water and power plants. 24/07/2021
Iraq More than 80 people killed and 110 injured in Iraqi hospital fire The Iraqi government has sacked key health officials following a hospital fire which left 82 people dead, many being treated for symptoms of coronavirus 25/04/2021
France France enters partial lockdown as hospital pressure reaches new highs The new restrictions entered into force as France reported 5,273 patients in intensive care on Saturday, one of the highest levels recorded since April last year. 04/04/2021
France COVID now killing more younger people, French doctor tells Euronews "It’s not old people dying anymore. These are people who still had 30 or 40 years to live," French ICU doctor Benjamin Clouzeau tells Euronews. 25/03/2021
Good Morning Europe Greece sends in private sector doctors to help overwhelmed hospitals Greece has begun easing restrictions despite the National Health Service coming under increasing strain from high numbers of daily new COVID-19 infections. The government has commandeered the services of private sector doctors to assist in public hospitals. 23/03/2021
Czech Republic ICU capacity in Czech Republic 'will be exhausted in 2 weeks' The Czech Republic health officials say hospitals are overwhelmed and they plan to ask for help from abroad when the numbers of remaining beds in hospitals reach 10% 24/02/2021
France Several French hospitals crippled by cyberattacks Three hospital buildings near the city of Lyon have fallen prey this week to hackers using ransomware. 16/02/2021
Portugal Germany sends medical staff and equipment to Portuguese hospitals One Portuguese hospital has seen the same amount of patients in January as it did during the whole of last year as the third wave of the pandemic sweeps across the country. 03/02/2021
Sweden Nurse wins prize to watch films for a week on a remote Swedish island An emergency room nurse in Sweden has won a prize to watch films for a week alone in a lighthouse on a remote island. 31/01/2021
world news COVID-19 medical staff burning out at alarming rate Many health workers are traumatised by the suffering and grief they see on a daily basis. 19/11/2020
Good Morning Europe Italy asks overseas doctors to fly in to help fight COVID-19 Health authorities in Italy have realised they have enough ventilators to cope with the second coronavirus wave but not enough medics to operate them. 17/11/2020
France Paris hospitals begin to see signs of hope despite coronavirus surge Therapeutic and other advances mean that patients more often are spending days instead of weeks in critical care and surviving in greater numbers. 14/11/2020
Italy Woman bids to end 'harrowing pain' of COVID-19 victims dying 'alone' "If our suffering may help others not to experience the same harrowing pain ... it would soothe our wounds," Maurizia told Euronews. 29/10/2020
Europe News Nurses with COVID-19 asked to carry on working at Belgian hospital "There's nothing but bad solutions because that's the point we are reaching now," said Dr Alexander Ghuysen, head of the emergency department at the hospital in Liege. 28/10/2020
Czech Republic Czech army sets up 500-bed field hospital anticipating COVID-19 surge The Czech army has sett up the first COVID-19 field hospital in Prague with a capacity of 500 beds and 10 intensive care units. 24/10/2020
Good Morning Europe French hospitals postpone operations to make space for COVID patients Hospitals in Paris and Montpellier have put some interventions on hold to free up space for COVID-19 as the country registered its six consecutive day with more than 10,000 new cases on Sunday. 28/09/2020
France French family hospitalised after mistaking deadly flower for spinach The family members thought that they were eating Tetragonia, or New Zealand spinach, but were instead ingesting a toxic plant known as Devil's weed. 31/07/2020
